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VITA PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Thomas Richmond Willis Longstaff Department of Religious Studies Colby College 4643 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 0490l-8846 Telephone: (207) 872-3150 email: [email protected] FAX (207) 872-3802 Home Address: 39 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME 04901 Telephone: (207) 872-6617 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ¾ Crawford Family Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus (2002- ) ¾ Crawford Family Professor of Religious Studies (1994-2002) ¾ Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies (1991-1994) ¾ Director, Jewish Studies (2001-2002) ¾ Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Colby College (1992-1996) ¾ Director of African-American Studies, Colby College (1992-1993; 1999-2000) ¾ Associate in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University (1991-1992) ¾ Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion (1989 -1991) ¾ Division Chair, Social Sciences Division, Colby College, (1987-1990) ¾ Director of American Studies, Colby College, (1987-1989) ¾ Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colby College, (1984-1991) ¾ Visiting Scholar, the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984-1985) ¾ Visiting Research Scholar, The Center For Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984-1985) ¾ Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colby College, (1979-1984) ¾ Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colby College, (1973-1979) ¾ Visiting Scholar, The Ashmolean Museum and the Oriental Institute of Oxford University (1977-1978) ¾ Interim Chaplain, Colby College (1976, 1979-1981) ¾ Summer School Faculty, Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME (1975) ¾ Visiting Professor, Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME (1974-1975) ¾ Instructor of Philosophy and Religion, Colby College (1969-1973) ¾ Lecturer in New Testament, Union Theological Seminary, New York City (summer 1968) ¾ Tutor in New Testament, Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1967- 1969) ¾ Minister, United Church of Christ, Westbury, Long Island, New York (1966) Thomas R. W. Longstaff 2 ¾ Tutor in Practical Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1965- 1969) ¾ Lecturer in Greek, Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME (1963-1964) ¾ Minister, Methodist Churches of Unity, Troy, and Dixmont, ME (1960-1964) ¾ Minister, United Church of Christ, Lincolnville Center, ME (1959) CHURCH AFFILIATION ¾ Episcopal, ordained priest in the Diocese of Maine CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS ¾ Biblical Archaeology and Christian Origins ¾ Judaism and Christianity in the Roman and Byzantine Periods ¾ Computer and technological applications in Biblical and Archaeological Research ¾ The Synoptic Gospels. EDUCATION ¾ B.A., The University of Maine at Orono (Philosophy) 1964 ¾ B.D., (now M.Div.), Bangor Theological Seminary (New Testament) 1964 ¾ Ph.D., Columbia University in cooperation with Union Theological Seminary (Biblical Languages and Literature) 1973 ¾ M.A., Colby College (awarded upon promotion to Professor) 1984 ¾ Certificate in clinical pastoral care, Bangor Theological Seminary in cooperation with the State Hospital at Bangor, 1963 ¾ Postdoctoral seminar in the Jewish Sources of Christianity: Literary and Archaeological, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, 1974 ¾ Ph.D. Dissertation: "Evidence of Conflation in Mark? A Study in the Synoptic Problem." Written under the direction of Professors J. Louis Martyn, Reginald H. Fuller, and Raymond E. Brown HONORS AND AWARDS ¾ Jonathan F. Morris Prize, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1961 and 1963 ¾ Faculty Prize, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1961 and 1963 ¾ Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1964 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES ¾ American Schools of Oriental Research ¾ Catholic Biblical Association of America ¾ Israel Exploration Society ¾ Maine Archaeological Association ¾ Society of Biblical Literature (Member of Council, 1993-1995) Thomas R. W. Longstaff 3 ¾ New England Region, Society of Biblical Literature (Executive Committee, 1982- 1984; Regional Secretary 1990-1995) ¾ Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas PUBLICATIONS ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “From the Birth of Jesus to the Resurrection: Women in the Gospel of Matthew,” When Judaism and Christianity Began. Essays in Memory of Anthony J. Saldarini. 2 vols. Alan J. Avery-Peck, Daniel Harrington and Jacob Neusner, eds. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 85. Leiden & Boston: E. J. Brill, 2004, Vol. I, pp. 147-178. ¾ Peabody, David B., Allan J. McNicol and Lamar Cope, editors. One Gospel From Two: Mark's Use of Matthew and Luke. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002. [I am listed as a contributing author of this book]. ¾ Peabody, David B. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff. A Synopsis of Mark: A Synopsis of the First Three Gospels Showing the Parallels to the Markan Text. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002. [This is a companion CD for the book, One Gospel From Two: Mark's Use of Matthew and Luke.] ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “What Are Those Women Doing at the Tomb of Jesus? Perspectives on Matthew 28:1.” A Feminist Companion to Matthew, Amy-Jill Levine, editor. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001, pp. 196-204. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of Mark’s Gospel: Worlds in Conflict by John Painter. Journal of Biblical Literature. [Also published electronically, “on-line.”] ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “Sepphoris, The Ornament of All Galilee.” Many Faces to the Bible: Papers from the First Bates College Symposium on Religion and Contemporary Issues, edited by Robert W. Allison and Mishael M. Caspi. Lewiston, ME: Bates College, 1997, pp. 146-154. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. and Tristram C. Hussey. "Palynology and Cultural Process: An Exercise in the New Archaeology." Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods, edited by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, 143. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997, pp. 151-163. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Contributor to Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture. Edited by Rebecca Martin Nagy, Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, and Zeev Weiss. Raleigh: The North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996. Distributed by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “Computer Recording, Analysis, and Interpretation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Eric M. Meyers, Editor in Chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, Volume 2, pp. 57-59. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “The Digmaster Database: http://www.cobb.msstate.edu/figurines/” Biblical Archaeologist., 59:2 (1996), pp. 128-129. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "The Gush Halav Synagogue," Dictionary of Biblical Judiasm, Jacob Neusner and William Green, editors. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996, Volume I, pp. 263-264. Thomas R. W. Longstaff 4 ¾ Strange, James F., Thomas R.W. Longstaff, and Dennis E. Groh, "Zippori--1991" in Ayala Sussman, et. al., editors, Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 13. Jerusalem: The Israel Antiquities Authority, 1995, pp. 29-30, 1 figure. ¾ Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff. "Excavations at Sepphoris: The Location and Identification of Shikhin, Part I."Israel Exploration Journal , 44 (1994), pp. 216-227. This article is also available on the World Wide Web in a hypertext version prepared by Thomas R. W. Longstaff. ¾ Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff with contribution by D. Adan-Bayewitz, F. Asaro, I Perlman and H. V. Michel. "Excavations at Sepphoris: The Location and Identification of Shikhin, Part II."Israel Exploration Journal , 45 (1995), pp. 171-187. This article is already available on the World Wide Web in a hypertext version prepared by Thomas R. W. Longstaff. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Hypertext as a Medium for Archaeological Publication," Archaeological Computing Newsletter , 39 (Oxford), pp. 1-2. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Gaulantis." The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 2. David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief. (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 911. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Modein." The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 4. David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief. (New York: Doubleday, 1992). pp. 894- 895. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Gush Halav in the Ancient Literary Sources." Excavations at the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav by Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers with James F.Strange. Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake,Indiana, 1990, pp. 16-22. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Nazareth and Sepphoris: Insights into Christian Origins." in Christ and His Communities: Essays in Honor of Reginald H. Fuller, edited by Arland J. Hultgren and Barbara Hall. Cincinnati: Forward Movement Publications, 1990, pp. 8-15. Simultaneously published in the Anglican Theological Review, Supplementary Series Number Eleven (March, 1990), pp. 8- 15. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Order in the Synoptic Gospels: A Response. " The Second Century, (Vol. 6, No. 2), pp. 98-106. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W. and Page A. Thomas. The Synoptic Problem: A Bibliography, 1716-1988. New Gospel Studies, 4. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988. ¾ Longstaff, Thomas R. W., "Abba", "God", "Holy Spirit", "Most High", "Image of God", "The Trinity". Harpers Bible Dictionary, New York: Harper and Row, 1985; Revised Edition, HarperSanFrancisco, 1996. ¾ Strange, James F. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff, "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1983. " Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 34 (1984), pp. 51-52; "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1985 (II), " Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal,